Alcantara
Translingual edit
Proper noun edit
Alcantara
- Synonym of Heterocoma (“flowering plant genus”)
Cebuano edit
Etymology edit
From Spanish Alcántara, from Arabic اَلْقَنْطَرَة (al-qanṭara, “the bridge”).
Proper noun edit
Alcantara
- a surname from Spanish
- A municipality of Cebu
Italian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Arabic اَلْقَنْطَرَة (al-qanṭara, “the bridge”).
Proper noun edit
Alcantara ?
- A river in Sicily
Further reading edit
- Alcantara on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia it
Tagalog edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Spanish Alcántara, from Arabic القَنْطَرَة (al-qanṭara).
Pronunciation edit
- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /ʔalˈkantaɾa/, [ʔɐlˈkan.tɐ.ɾɐ]
- Rhymes: -antaɾa
- Syllabification: Al‧can‧ta‧ra
Proper noun edit
Alcántará (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜎ᜔ᜃᜈ᜔ᜆᜇ)
- a surname from Spanish
- A municipality of Cebu, Philippines.
Related terms edit
Statistics edit
According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Alcantara is the 35th most common surname in the Philippines, occurring in 111,620 individuals.